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Show Archery Hunt Requires Much Patience and Bullfrog Basin to the Henry, Escalante and Mt. Dutton areas where elevations rise to 11,000 feet. Along with the unusual geography come incredible deposits of minerals. Uranium is being mined near Ticaboo and a large processing mill has been built there. Enormous deposits of coal exist in the county which have yet to be mined. The amazing Display of Vermillion Ver-million cliffs, terraces, plateaus and canyons are evidence of profound and rapid erosion in Garfield County. There are few places in the world where the geologic column is so well exposed. The 5,185 square miles of the county are so well exhibited, so sculptured by erosion and arranged by a structure that it is considered a classic geological spot. Igneous and sedimentary rock are well exposed; only metamorphics are missing. The Henry Mountains igneous . intrusions are classics of structural geology. The fossils found within the county are plentiful and educational. Altitudes vary from the 4,200 feet of the Cane Spring Desert |